PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 27, 2008 (AFP) - A road accident involving a barreling truck with failed brakes has left at least 32 people dead and about 50 injured in southern Haiti, officials said.

The accident occurred in the town of Cavaillon Saturday, when a heavily loaded trucks with failed brakes plowed head-on into at least three oncoming vehicles.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 26, 2008 (AFP) - Dozens of people were feared dead and many more injured Saturday after a truck plowed into a busy street market in the town of Cavaillon in southern Haiti, according to a witness and local media.

The accident may have left as many as 30 dead, local radio reported.

MANILA, July 24, 2008 (AFP) - The Philippines is to send 320 soldiers to Liberia and Haiti next month for UN peacekeeping missions, armed forces chief of staff General Alexander Yano said Thursday.

The soldiers will serve for six months, with 165 leaving for the troubled West African nation on August 1 and 155 others heading for the Caribbean in mid-August, Yano said in a statement.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 17, 2008 (AFP) - Haiti's chamber of deputies voted Thursday to approve the nomination of Michele Pierre-Louis as prime minister, giving hopes of an imminent end to three months of political stalemate.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 6, 2008 (AFP) - The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Marie Guehenno, on Sunday called on Haiti's political leaders to hammer out a speedy consensus to end a crisis that has gripped the nation for months.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 6, 2008 (AFP) - The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Marie Guehenno, on Sunday called on Haiti's political leaders to hammer out a speedy consensus to end a crisis that has gripped the nation for months.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 26, 2008 (AFP) - Haitian President Rene Preval nominated his longtime ally Robert Manuel as prime minister late Sunday amid a political crisis marked by soaring food prices, parliamentary sources said on Monday.

NEW YORK, May 21, 2008 (AFP) - Haitian-born hip-hop star Wyclef Jean has launched a campaign to help his impoverished native country cope with a food crisis that sparked deadly riots last month.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 13, 2008 (AFP) - Haitian deputies rejected President Rene Preval's nomination as prime minister, a month after his predecessor was sacked amid deadly riots over soaring food prices.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 12, 2008 (AFP) - Haiti's Chamber of Deputies rejected on Monday the nomination of Ericq Pierre as prime minister, two weeks after he was named to the post by President Rene Preval.